HOW to REMOVE “STARTINF.RU” Virus (PUP.Adware.STARTINF)?

In this post I will tell you how to fix problem manually and how to clean it automatically using a special powerful removal tool.
You can download the removal program for free here:

What is STARTINF.RU?

STARTINF.RU is a Browser Hijacker.
STARTINF.RU is classified as PUP.Adware.STARTINF.
Browser Hijacker is a type of MALWARE, that is designed to change your browser’s settings.
You may experience any of the following behaviors: Your search is getting redirected to different websites. Your homepage or search engine is changed without your permission. Webpages load slowly.

How I got STARTINF.RU virus?

Yesterday I didn’t knew nothing about this adware. But late in the evening my friend asked me to look at his PC.

“My homepage was changed and I can not reset it” – he said. “OK, no problem, let’s see what you have.” – I ran his browser. The screen I saw was with STARTINF.RU search page on it.

All shortcuts of his browsers were infected and changed. His homepage were changed to STARTINF.RU too.
I have tried to change it, I have checked all settings of his browser, but in waste – after a couple of minutes it has returned to STARTINF.RU.

I have checked the scheduled task and deleted them. That was not enough too.

I have checked and closed all suspicious processes, and started to fix all shortcuts again. The same thing – all settings has returned to STARTINF.RU.
I have checked all programs in autostart menu…
So I have spend about 2 hours to fix that problem manually!

You can save 2 hours using this manual!

You have 2 ways to remove STARTINF.RU:

Why I recommend you to use an automatic way?

You know only one virus name: "STARTINF.RU", but usually you have infected by a bunch of viruses.
The UnHackMe program detects this threat and all others.

UnHackMe is quite fast! You need only 5 minutes to check your PC.

UnHackMe uses the special features to remove hard in removal viruses. If you remove a virus manually, it can prevent deleting using a self-protecting module. If you even delete the virus, it may recreate himself by a stealthy module.

Here’s how to remove STARTINF.RU virus:

UnHackMe will complete all steps I wrote above by checking all items with it’s database in only 1 minute!

Also UnHackMe surely will find another malware too, not only STARTINF.RU virus.

With manual deletion there can be some problems with erasing some opened files. Some processes can immediately be opened again. Often you can not have access rights to do some operations also.

UnHackMe ready to all this situations and will make hard work during reboot.

And that is not the end! If after erasing STARTINF.RU virus some problems still exists, UnHackMe has manual mode to explore unwanted programs in list and fix them.
Just try to use UnHackMe from Greatis Software and follow this guide!

So let’s start now:

STEP 1: Install UnHackMe (1 minute).

And later you have to choose destination to install and finish installation process.

STEP 2: Scan for STARTINF.RU malware using UnHackMe (1 minute).

After that you have to run UnHackMe, and start scanning, you may use fast scan for only 1 minute. But if you have time – I recommend you to run Online Multi-Antivirus + Anti-malware scanning with VirusTotal – it will increase probability of detection not only STARTINF.RU virus, but the other unwanted software too.

After that the scanning process will begin.

STEP 3: Remove STARTINF.RU malware (3 minutes).

By the way, UnHackMe shows you everything he found, not only absolutely bad, but suspected and even potentially good. Be careful! Not sure – skip it! But if it is marked as dangerous – trust it. It will be red. Check it and click Remove Checked.

After that UnHackMe may ask you for confirmation and advise to close all browsers. Do it.

In case you need to delete file or directory it is better to check ‘Use file safe deleting’. Yes, you will need to reboot, but this is best way.

And after all you will see the results of your scanning and fixing process

STEP 4: (optional) Clear your basket and cache.

Well, at first clear your basket. It is very usual, but necessary operation.
Simply right click on your basket and choose “Clear”.

After that you have to clear the cache of your browser. For example, if you use Mozilla Firefox as I do, just go to menu Tools and run Options.
Open Privacy tab and check option ‘Clear history when Firefox closes’

Then click Settings at this screen and check options ‘Cookies’ and ‘Cache’ as shown at picture.

After that click OK and close your browser’s pages. All information in cache will be removed.

So after all these steps you will have absolutely clean system without any trace of STARTINF.RU virus. Start using UnHackMe right now to completely protect your PC from malware and unwanted programs!

After that, check shortcuts of your browsers if they have additional addresses at the end of command line. Check if shortcuts runs real browsers, not fakes. Remember: Chromium is fake browser, real name have to be Chrome.

Check all plug-ins of all installed browsers: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc. if they have our virus name in their names or directory.

After that, check settings of search and homepage of your browser. Reset them if needed.

But if you miss any of these steps and only one part of virus remains – it will come back again immediately or after reboot.

So it was much easier to fix such problem automatically, wasn’t it? I fixed STARTINF.RU virus in only 5 minutes! That is why I strongly advise you to use UnHackMe for remove STARTINF.RU virus or other unwanted software, using this simple guide.

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